It's either you're being Insincere with this post or Ignorant.
Jaja was born in Imo/Asia and sold into slavery. He was sold to Bonny. He excelled in his masters house and rose to become a chief, thereby regaining his freedom from slavery. After many years, disagreement arose between the Chiefs of Bonny and Jaja sought a place where he can establish himself separate from the Bonny Chiefs. He discovered an island, settled there and called the place Opobo.
If his descendants have decided they are Igbos due to ancestry, then I don't see why there's an issue. Jaja discovered Opobo land himself so no ijaw should lay claims to owning Opobo land.
Igbos naturally are a handful. They will test your resolve almost perpetually, so live with them or let them go
My brother, you only get such revised history from wikipedia, and certain writers who intend to alter true history.
Let's logically view this.
How can one man 'discover' a land and became king over the land? King over who? An empty land?
For him to be King, there must have been people coexisting in such land, and there must have been a social structure in place for a king to be ordained.
We are not talking about 19 BC, this happened in the 19th century!
Hope you know all these lands were under the Bonny Kingdom and the Ibanis (who are Ijos/Ijaws) were the indigenous people.
Ikaeniyan0: Jaja was bought as a slave like any other igbos that were bought as slaves by the ibanis
How do that link Ijaws and igbos?
Many cunning (or ignorant) individuals attempt to use Jaja of Opobo(~1821 - 1891) to lay claim on Ijaw and Kalabari lands.
He was born in Imo State and taken as a slave to Ijaw land (present day Rivers State).
With the abolishment of slave trade and assimilation into the general society, with the conversion of camps to communities and the magnanimity of the host communities, he was ordained leader (king) of the community in Opobo. All these events occurred just towards the end of the 19th Century. Today, certain Igbos are telling the indigenes who embraced them they are not the owners of their lands.
Unfortunately, this would only heighten distrust and worsen the level of hostility of potential hosts towards even innocent Igbos who have no business with such madness as has been seen in Lagos, now PH.
It's either you're being Insincere with this post or Ignorant.
Jaja was born in Imo/Asia and sold into slavery. He was sold to Bonny. He excelled in his masters house and rose to become a chief, thereby regaining his freedom from slavery. After many years, disagreement arose between the Chiefs of Bonny and Jaja sought a place where he can establish himself separate from the Bonny Chiefs. He discovered an island, settled there and called the place Opobo.
If his descendants have decided they are Igbos due to ancestry, then I don't see why there's an issue. Jaja discovered Opobo land himself so no ijaw should lay claims to owning Opobo land.
Igbos naturally are a handful. They will test your resolve almost perpetually, so live with them or let them go
My brother, you only get such revised history from wikipedia, and certain writers who intend to alter true history.
Let's logically view this.
How can one man 'discover' a land and became king over the land? King over who? An empty land?
For him to be King, there must have been people coexisting in such land, and there must have been a social structure in place for a king to be ordained.
We are not talking about 19 BC, this happened in the 19th century!
Hope you know all these lands were under the Bonny Kingdom and the Ibanis (who are Ijos/Ijaws) were the indigenous people.
Ikaeniyan0: I wander why IPOB is trying to claim Ijaw land. And none of their elder is stopping them from this madness that can lead to bloodshed
The Ibani, an offshoot of the Ijaw people is located in Southern Rivers State, Nigeria. Its alternate name is Ubani made up of Bonny Town, on Bonny Island, the Kingdom of Opobo in Opobo Island and its settlements. Both kingdoms have a strong central authority structure and a long-established royal lineage. Bonny’s development was also shaped by the close interaction with European traders. It was the melting point of economic activities right from the 16th century. It served as Christianity’s first port of call in West Africa. With a thriving traditional system and robust cultural heritage, it stands out as one of the foremost local communities in Nigeria. The community is subdivided into two main segments – the mainland and the hinterland. The mainland is comprised of the Township, Sandfield, Iwoama, Orosikiri, Aganya, Agambo, Akiama, Workers Camp, Finima and some outlying fishing settlements lying along the Bonny River’s coastline. The hinterland includes the villages that houses indigenes of Bonny kingdom. The Kingdom of Opobo is in many instances a replica of the Old Bonny Kingdom but unique in its planning; showing a combination of modernity and the ancient. Yet not totally bastardized by the impact of Western influences brought into the local community as the Bonny case. Opobo Kingdom is made of Opobo Town which is the seat of authority and the outlying settlements or plantation settlements called Kalama and owned by chiefs of some main Houses in Opobo. The structure of authority revolves round the House system. The Alabo – in council is the highest policy making institution. The council members are elders – Warisenapu who constitute the council. The Amanyanabo in council is the policy making institution and the highest administrative organ. Although there are title holders, they play little or no role in governance. In recent times, specific assignments like raising funds in socio-economic development have been assigned to them. The main town which was virtually submerged by the rising water level was sand filled in 2007. The social history of Opobo Kingdom was also shaped by interaction with Europeans and her neighbours, from the Igbo hinterland, and to a little extent by the Ibibio Ogoni and Andoni. Unlike Bonny, Opobo played little part in the oil and gas industry, thus shielding the Kingdom from the eroding influences of modernization.
One of the reasons for this gradual loss of the Ibani language was the injection of Igbo people (not culture) in the Ibani regions which culminated in the age-long interaction between Ibani and Ndoki people (who are actually Ijaws that allowed Igbo migrants to settle amongst them). Many of them now speak variants of Igbo and are sometimes classified as Igbo but their Ijaw culture is still very pronounced. The main reason why Bonny and Opobo regions speak Igbo dialects is because of continuous relations (mainly through intermarriage) with their Ndoki relatives. Note that the Ndoki people are Ijaw people that reside close to the mainstream Igbo who accommodated Igbo migrants and lost their language to the visitors a long time ago. Opobo became the worst hit because they are located at the mouth of the Imo River that connects Ndoki and Ibaniland. The Ibani do not share a boundary with the Igbo people. They only share boundaries with Ibibio, Ogonis and Ndoki people who have adopted variants of the Igbo language (Ikwerre, Ekpeye, Ogba, Ndokwa etc).
Another probable reason for the dearth of the Ibani language is the absence of literary materials in the Ibani language. Written materials in a particular language, serve to preserve that language. Roger Blench had this to say in the preface of his Ibani dictionary; “despite the importance attached to literacy in the Ibani area, there are a few accessible modem publications on the language. We have a few historical accounts which state the possible causes of the decline of the Ibani language.”
Paul Hair (1967) seems to have been the first bibliographer to cite the history and citations of Ijo in early historical sources and the following is largely adapted from his essay.
The first actual words of Ibani were recorded by Captain Hugh Crow, an English slave-trader who operated from Bonny around the end of the eighteenth century. From his account one would think that there was only one language, namely Eboe [Igbo] spoken at Bonny, but in his wordlist of Eboe’, a few Ibani words are found casually embedded in it.
The expedition of 1832 - 34 up the Niger collected vocabularies of a number of languages but not of Ijo. Edwin Norris, the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society, used these when he compiled a handbook for the use of the next Niger Expedition and added materials from other sources, including numerals in ‘Bonny’, i.e. Ibani (Norris 1840).
In 1840 a German doctor spent some four months in Bonny as a ship’s doctor, and wrote a detailed account of Bonny including a long vocabulary of Ibani. (Köler 1842-43), reprinted as Köler 1848). He notes the use of two languages, Ibani and Igbo, at Bonny, and the attempts by elders to prevent boys from teaching him Ibani. This confirms what is said today, that the major reason for the decline of Ibani is the successful attempt to keep it from being learnt by outsiders, which in the nineteenth century included a large slave population. The result of this policy is that Igbo has become the common language of communication.
Two more dialects of Ijo were recorded for the first time by John Clarke (1848). These were ‘Numbe’ [Nembe] and ‘Akrika’ [Okrika], together with further lists of Kalabari and Ibani. Clarke was a Baptist missionary who, with the help of an Afro- American colleague, Merrick, collected his wordlists in an unsystematic way, some in Fernando Po and some in the West Indies (Hair 1967).
Sigismund Koelle was a German scholar who worked for the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Freetown. There he compiled his Polyglotta Africana in 1850 which was published in 1854. It was a collection of vocabularies of African languages, compiled by interviewing the freed slaves who had been resettled in Freetown. Koelle used a standard wordlist of about three hundred items and added notes on his informants and their homelands, from which he was able to draw a map which is remarkably accurate for a period when no European knew the interior of West Africa. His vocabularies are grouped according to genetic relationship in so far as he could trace it from the wordlists. He has two wordlists of Ijo, grouped together as V.C., the group which conjoins Igboid and Edoid. The first list, ‘OkuIma’, is a wordlist of Ibani, named for the town Okólómá, although Koelle’s informant was from Orupiri (órüpIrI). Koelle (1854: refers to Obäne as the name for these people given by the Ibos and Kerekas [Okrika]. Williamson (1966) discusses Koelle’s Ijo lists in detail. In the case of Ibani, she shows that some 73% of Koelle’s forms were accurate and also yield interesting information about lexical and phonological change in the language since they were recorded. In 1856, Baikie published his account of the 1854 voyage to explore the Niger. In his appendix on the languages, he states: From the Rio Formoso to the Nun, including all the western portion of the Delta, the natives speak Orü or Ejó, and to the westward of Abó a distinct dialect is used, namely the Sóbo, Nimbe or Brass is very nearly related to the Orú, and I believe that from the Brass River to the New Kalabár, the natives dwelling on the banks of each of the intervening rivers all talk differently.
MorataFC: Mr Man your writeup is watery, the length of the whole world is 40,000 km by length and the wall of Benin covers half of that, from Lagos to London is 5,020 km while the wall of Benin is 16,000 km long? How is that even possible?
The walls were not built in a straight line. They surrounded different towns and villages through various terrains.
If you measure the distance through bends and turns which you would travel from one part of town to another, you'd be surprised at the number of kilometers covered.
Moreover, most of these lands are allocated plots which have to be developed within a given timeframe or risk revocation and reallocation to others with true intention for development and investment, in the spirit of fairness and equity. But over time in Abuja with the influx of various characters, a dirty practice by very greedy individuals would be to receive multiple allocations, refuse to develop, then place these lands for sale at ridiculous prices.
Anyone who wants to hoard lands should go to his or her village to do so.
Great, Positive development by the Minister.
juman: In highbrow areas, when you buy land you should be ready to develop it. Because lot of more serious people are there willing to develop the plots if they get chance.
Most of these lands were not bought, they were allocated by the FCDA through AGIS with a relatively small application fee (as at 12 years ago - 100k per application), also through government padi padi, lands were allocated to many of these individuals whose names you recognise.
Most of these lands have been lying fallow for over 15 years. Some have been in the market at ridiculous prices, potential buyers have ignored them.
This significantly retards the development of the FCT.
flokii: How will an Executive appointee be answerable to the National Assembly?.. Wike as Minister of FCT is directly under the Executive arm of government and must function in such capacity.
I see those not happy that a Southerner is FCT Minister pushing the Kingibe woman. The constitution is clearly spelt out.
It's actually certain 'Southerners' pushing the Kingibe woman. Unfortunately, it's DOA.
The senator just mentioned that to whine some of her party members during her post-tribunal speech.
obiekunie01: THE CHAIRMAN OF NMA JOS CHAPTER SHOULD BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY!
The purpose of NMA is to vet all practicing medical doctors - hence reason why the doctors pay almost 100k for annual practicing license fee! If you don't pay these fees, NMA will proscribe you immediately!
NOT JUST THAT, BEFORE YOU ARE ALLOWED TO PRACTICE AS A DOCTOR IN ANY STATE IN NIGERIA, YOU MUST FIRST PRESENT YOUR CREDENTIALS TO THE STATE CHAPTER OF NMA, THEY WILL DO ALL DUE DILIGENCE AND VET YOUR CREDENTIALS!
SO ARE THEY TELLING US THAT DOCTOR KEKERE HAS BEEN PRACTICING IN JOS AND OWNING SEVERAL CLINICS WITHOUT PAYING HIS PRACTICING FEES??
IS THAT WHAT JOS NMA CHAPTER IS TRYING TO TELL US??
WHY IS NMA ALWAYS QUICK TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM ANY MALPRACTICE BY ITS MEMBERS?
If NMA cannot do the work of protecting Nigerians from fake and quake doctors then the organisation should be disbanded!
IF I AM THAT WOMAN'S LAWYER, NMA WILL BE LISTED AS ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS AND BY THE TIME AM DONE WITH THEM, THEY WILL BE PAYING HEAVILY FOR THEIR NEGLIGENCE!
The man is not a doctor to begin with and therefore not a member of NMA.
It's the duty of the State Ministry of Health (or Department of Medical Services) to license and monitor facilities operating within their jurisdiction.
DevilsEqual: I dont know who you are talking about but last i checked on NBS and statisense
SE isnt the destination of of the majority of people leaving their region in Nigeria. The North takes that SE indigenes emigrated from their regions far more than any other ethnic group in Nigeria
So who really cant leave without Igbos...Definitely not the SW, cause those ones hardly leave their regions to any other part of Nigeria
Maybe the South South people
The South South hardly leave their region o!
I remember the first day I ever met an Ibibio man. LOL.
This may be difficult to prove as a 'scan' cannot ascertain whether the kidney was removed during the appendectomy, especially if the woman had no earlier scan proving she indeed had two kidneys.
There are individuals with one kidney (renal agenesis) and may not be aware of it until discovered during an ultrasound or CT scan.
Might not be dat difficult to prove, the kind of incision or scan wud definitely give him out . Besides he is not a medical doctor, so he has too many cases to answer b4 God and the law
Yes. Being a quack, he already has a case to answer.
The only way to objectively prove any surgery was carried out on her right kidney would be through a laparoscopy.
John Yakubu, an aspirant for the 2024 Governorship election in Edo said his main priorities would be a generation of 100 megawatt of electricity to the national grid to boost the socioeconomic development of the state.
Yakubu, who spoke to newsmen during an interactive session in Benin City, promised that the feat will be achieved within a few months or years of assumption of office if elected governor.
The governorship aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, who explained that he visited the Covenant University to understudy its power generation model, said what cost the university to generate 17MW for 24hours power supply to the community, was less that N700 million.
According to him, today, Edo State has added about 100 Megawatt to the national grid and this is the only state that could boat of that among the 36 states.
“I tell you this, we have abandoned abundant gas resources to make sure we are able to provide electricity for our people. How do we do that? It is not a rocket science.
“From Benin through Edo Central to Edo North, the gas needed to give our people is available. We have the understanding that as we speak today, there is valve in Igueben and Auchi.
“These valves are provided by those who did that pipeline to enable any person interested in taking that gas for the benefits of the people to take advantage of that valves,” he said.
The governorship candidate hopefully promised to replicate the achievements he recorded while serving as the Chairman, Esan North East Local Government Area in the state between 2007 and 2010.
According to him, I had the opportunity to be the chairman of Esan North-East local government for just two years and ten months (between 2007 and 2010). The visible projects are still there.
“We have 774 local government areas, and I am the only one that built a police barrack. During my time, I asphalted eight roads, the longest was 1.5km with drains on both sides. I built about four boreholes to address the lack of water in Uromi.
“The only state council staff quarter you have in Esan North East was built by me in less than three years. These are verifiable projects,” he added.
The former running mate to the party governorship candidate in 2016, however, expressed commitment to resuscitate local government administration in the state without any form of interference if given the opportunity to serve.
He also promised employment generation through steady and uninterrupted electricity supply as well as provision of modern implement for mechanised agricultural practices.
On road infrastructure, the PDP chieftain said he would expand Ikpoba River bridge to address the habitual vehicular congestion at Ikpoba slope and intervene in Federal roads in the state to the benefits of the people.
“We must again allow the system to teach our people how profitable it is to be in a farm. When this is realised, nobody will come to you to talk and beg for money.
“They will go and before you could say jack, there is enough food for you to eat. There are lots of sachet water factories in Edo today, nobody begged them to go into it. It is because they think it is profitable, that is why they go into it,” he added.
miekoe: To build is a problem , to destroy is not. Why not take ownership instead of destroying something that was built with millions of hard earned cash.
Who would take ownership? The government? The land has an owner, someone else went ahead to develop an unapproved structure on the land.
The best course of action is to demolish the structure and take legal action against such person.
This would deter land grabbers and those who think they can flout laws and regulations.
The other way round actually. Indigenous tribes of the Niger Delta were masters.
Fortunately, colonialists intervened and slaves integrated into the society. Even one of the slaves was conferred leader of one of the communities owing to the magnanimity and receptiveness of the indigenous tribes. Today, some Igbos attempt to claim such areas as Igbo areas.
As for the slave matter, go find out about the Igbo Landing.
And you always seek ways to sow seeds of discord whenever you have such opportunity, believing you'll somehow benefit anything.
Now, listen clearly! The great people and indigenes of Abuja are more than glad to have Wike as the current FCT Minister, who has the capacity to sanitise the city and has reassured the people of inclusivity as already demonstrated in some appointments.
suolboy: Wike should develop the satellite towns to decongest the city center. Build roads, supply water and light to the rural areas of FCT and stop concentrating in the city center alone.
He mentioned that as part of the agenda of the new FCT Administration.
This is one of the best appointments in this administration.
You that the white men meant roaming the bushes with only palm leaves to cover your unclothedness.
Haven't you pondered why while others have an originality to their cultural costumes like what Reno is wearing because they were already civilize enough to making dresses by themselves before the coming of the whitemen. Your tribe has nothing to show except borrowing the white man's singlet and baby knitted cap as their traditional attire?